The money that Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. distributed on the field after LSU's national championship victory Monday was real, Tigers quarterback Joe Burrow said in a podcast interview released Wednesday.

"I'm not a student-athlete anymore, so I can say yeah," Burrow said on the most recent episode of Barstool Sports' "Pardon My Take."

Initially, an LSU spokesperson told the Baton Rouge Advocate that the money being handed out on the field by Beckham, a former LSU star, was counterfeit. On Tuesday, the school told the Louisiana newspaper that the university is looking to the matter.

School officials could not be immediately reached for comment by ESPN on Wednesday.

In a now-private Twitter video that initially went viral, Beckham was filmed handing out what appeared to be real cash to LSU players in the aftermath of the Tigers' 42-25 victory against Clemson for the university's first national championship since 2007.

After the game, LSU coach Ed Orgeron said he wasn't aware of the incident.

"First I'm hearing about it," Orgeron told reporters in New Orleans after the game.

If the money being doled out by Beckham was real, as Burrow said Tuesday, it would be a violation of NCAA bylaws. Cash is an example of impermissible benefits that are prohibited by the governing body.

On Wednesday, Detraveon Brown, a wide receiver from Shreveport, Louisiana, pulled an Ole Miss hat out of a bag under the table during a ceremony at Northwood High School and announced he was signing with the school.

"They are the SEC and they're a big-time athletic program," Brown told The Shreveport Times after the ceremony. "I wanted to compete with the best, so that's why I'm taking my talents there."

But Ole Miss never announced the signing, and it wasn't clear what Brown had signed for the cameras. Ole Miss officials told ESPN that Brown did not receive a formal offer nor was he sent scholarship papers.

On Thursday, North Texas announced that Brown signed with the Mean Green. Brown, who had taken an official visit to Ole Miss last weekend, made a statement on Twitter to try to explain what happened.

"Until yesterday, I was pretty sure that I was on my way to Ole Miss," he said. "This assumption was based on a verbal offer from the school and reassurance even into the final hours that I would receive my National Letter of Intent today. As you know, this is not the case.

"Words can't describe the stress and disappointment that this has caused my family. However, I am still optimistic about my future as a collegiate football player and will continue to strive to make my dream a reality."

Brown, a 5-foot-11, 178-pound receiver, was a 3-star recruit who caught 57 passes for 904 yards and 20 touchdowns this past season.